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Gardening

Retrograde

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18. You can also squish them with your fingers and brush the bodies off

Reply to elleng (Reply #12)

Sat Jun 1, 2013, 01:47 AM

Jun 2013

I've found a squirt bottle with a water/detergent mixture works well: the detergent damages the aphids' shells leaving them no protection against the elements.

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Noticed little white things on rose bush [View all] elleng May 2013 OP

Aphids? They love roses. n/t Mira May 2013 #1

Checked google 'images,' elleng May 2013 #2

Yes, it is an Aphid-- Wooly Aphid, N/T freemay20 May 2013 #9

My little white things on my rose bush are aphids. intheflow May 2013 #3

MAY have been these. Yes, dandruff-kind of. elleng May 2013 #4

Where get ladybugs? elleng May 2013 #5

I'm going to try my local garden center. intheflow May 2013 #7

Yes, I like them too! elleng May 2013 #8

I really don't know doodly-squat about roses. intheflow May 2013 #15

HA, flow! elleng May 2013 #16

The ladybugs are SICK, can't breed or whatever they do this year/now, elleng May 2013 #17

I had them all over freemay20 May 2013 #6

Wooly Aphid, can be treated with NEEMS Oil N/T freemay20 May 2013 #10

the thing to remember about aphids is that they depend on ants to survive. mopinko May 2013 #11

THANKS, mop, but its not my house, elleng May 2013 #12

well it still wont hurt to dust around the bush. mopinko May 2013 #13

FUNNY that when I was working elleng May 2013 #14

You can also squish them with your fingers and brush the bodies off Retrograde Jun 2013 #18